What does pertransient mean?
Pertransient means (rare) Passing through; transient..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) Passing through; transient..
I will not stick summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them.
Interſecants, in Heraldry, are pertranſient Lines which croſs one another.
Thus is man fated to learn effectually from experience; the voice of the sage is, like all sublunary things, pertransient.
And to move is active as to feel is passive, wherefore by greater heat; whether the faculty [of sensation combines] with the essence, viz., of the pertransient spirit [translating spiritus pertranseuntis], [according to] Galen when [he says the faculty is in the brain] without the essence.
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Pertransient means (rare) Passing through; transient..
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I will not stick summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them.
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